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Raymond Kelly is shrugging off a new book written by Leonard Levitt. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly is shrugging off a stinging new book by longtime antagonist Leonard Levitt .

This is a rush transcript of "Special Report With Bret Baier" from July 1, 2009.

It reads like a rap sheet -- the list of politicians who couldn't keep their pants on.

Rudy Giuliani almost got the last laugh in the battle against the squatters at the Lower East Side's ABC No Rio , who fought off eviction in the mid-'90s and won ownership of their building at 156 Rivington Street, only to be hit with $2.4 million in necessary repairs .

Former New York mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani offered a roundabout defense of disgraced Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford - and Republicans as a whole - on Fox News Wednesday.

The political stalemate that's bottlenecking business in the state Capitol has local lawmakers saying it's time to change Albany's dysfunctional culture.

By now, it's clear that Mark Sanford has about as much of a future in politics as he does in sumo wrestling.

WHEN NEWS of Salvatore F. DiMasi's indictment broke recently, a friend sent this e-mail: "Bad day for the Italians.'' This friend is Italian-American, and it was his immediate reaction to the criminal charges filed against the first Italian-American speaker of the House of Representatives.

Former New York City Mayor and one-time Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani is calling for a state constitutional convention to make sure a Senate stalemate doesn't happen again.

You know things are bad for God's Own Party when the arch-conservative and faithfully Republican Washington Times runs an article proclaiming "social conservatives fall from moral high ground." Declaring "Republicans retreat from values claims," the Times catalogued the damage done to the party of supposed "values voters" by an endless string of ...

Two weeks ago, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Nevada Sen. John Ensign were rising stars in the Republican Party, a pair of politicians believed to be contenders for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

Republican Rick Lazio, who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000, is planning to run for governor of New York next year, his spokesman said Thursday.

Yes They Will: 1. He's the latest in a line of potential GOP presidential candidates to fall victim to his personal appetites.

What is it with philandering politicians? Why do men in power - the ones on pedestals - think they are above us and can get away with cheating on their spouses, particularly when media scrutiny is so intense and peccadilloes are arguably more politically damaging than in the past? There's a long list of those who thought they could jet off to ...

According to this list from FirstRead , Republicans are leading Dems nearly 2.5 to 1 in sex scandals.

ALBANY, N.Y. - Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is calling for a state constitutional convention to fix what he calls New York's dysfunctional government.

Herea s Rudy Giuliani testing out a campaign message against David Paterson, accusing the governor of implementing the a oebiggest increase in spending that I can ever recall of any government in Albany, ever, in the middle of a recession.a Around the two-minute mark, Giuliani says, a oeOne of the things that I think is a disaster for the state is ...

Editor's note: John P. Avlon is the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and writes a weekly column for The Daily Beast.

Latest news from the Great California Banana Republic: Our Dear Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has "come out of the closet" as a full-bloodied Bush Republican declaring he will veto the Democrats' budget plan if it includes $1.9 billion in new taxes on oil and tobacco, and fees on motorists to fund state parks.

June 18, 2009 - I'm not sure what is considered a hate crime anymore, but the two most recent incidents where an escaped gorilla was referred to as an "ancestor" of First Lady Michelle Obama: and President Obama was depicted alongside his 43 predecessors as a black box and white eyes showing, could only be from someone motivated by hate.